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Fooled By Democracy

By Irfan Waheed • Feb 21st, 2010 • Category: Politics

So at last the sneering former dictator Musharraf has announced that he wants to play his role with the help of people’s power and yes through democratic way. Who knows democracy and its ways better than the dictators?
Just after two years of his departure, Musharraf is once again ready to jump into the practical politics, [...]



PPP Bans Nabeel Gabol from Appearing in Talkshows

By Irfan Waheed • Jan 2nd, 2010 • Category: Politics

Just to get a glimpse of dictatorial nature which the Pakistan’s leading ruling party PPP has recently acquired, one just have to observe the proceedings of the central executive committee of the party in which only sycophants rule and ‘Yes Boss’ becomes the mantra.
In a recent meeting of PPP CEC, Sardar Nabeel Gabol, PPP MNA [...]



Kuch Maza Nahin Aya

By Irfan Waheed • Dec 19th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Nobody has been arressted,  nobody has been summoned to court, even the Exit Control List is nowhere to be seen and there is lots of confusion about this very issue and  infact the secretary of interior has been suspended along with some FIA officials as they barred the defense minister Ahmad Mukhtar from going to [...]



Speech by Bryan Dyson (CEO Coca Cola) - Very Inspiring

By Irfan Waheed • Dec 10th, 2009 • Category: Entertainment

“Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling some five balls in the air. You name them - work, family, health, Friends and spirit and you’re keeping all of these in the Air.
You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back.
But the other four [...]



America Lying About Osama Bin Laden

By Irfan Waheed • Dec 7th, 2009 • Category: Politics

For the last few months we have been hearing from the American leaders that Osama Bin Laden is somewhere in Quetta and then the US newspapers started clamoring that Osama has shifted to the city of Karachi.
Pakistani premier Yousuf Raza Gilani said that Osama is not in Pakistan in UK. Americans didn’t believe that.
Then a [...]



Cut Taliban with Taliban

By Irfan Waheed • Dec 1st, 2009 • Category: Politics

Whether anyone admit or understand it or not, there are good and bad Taliban. Every nation has its full right to assert and protect its own interest. We have done plenty of interest-serving to the Americans and now enough is enough and now its time that we should also look towards our own interests.
Due to [...]



Investigation of Benazir’s Murder

By Irfan Waheed • Nov 20th, 2009 • Category: Politics

It’s been quite a long as the Pakistan People’s Party, the party of Benazir Bhutto, the late two time Prime Minister of Pakistan is in the rule, but the case investigation of Benazir Bhutto’s assassination is going no where.
The commission of United Nations hired by the PPPP government is moving on in lethargic fashion and [...]



Mathew Rosenberg is a US Spy ????

By Irfan Waheed • Nov 12th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Well, The Nation, the newspaper, TPS blogger Dr. Shireen Mazari manages thinks so and Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is in uproar.
Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has strongly condemned a news story published in a English newspaper of Pakistan which accused US newspaper Wall Street Journal’s correspondent Mathew Rosenberg of being a spy of United [...]



High-Pressure Slickness

By Irfan Waheed • Nov 6th, 2009 • Category: Politics

One thing that the current crowd around President Asif Ali Zardari is adept is “glibness.” Unctuous attitude by the ministers, advisors and other office holders of this regime has achieved new heights. They can present coughing of Zardari as the most melodious song every sung.
From Dr. Babar Awan to Khurshid Shah and from Fauzia Wahab [...]



Pir Pagara’s Men Tortured Tableeghi Jamat People

By Irfan Waheed • Nov 2nd, 2009 • Category: Politics

The violence, intolerance and extremism has many forms in Pakistan. We might become successfull in wiping out the terrorism from South Waziristan as we have done in Swat, but what to do with the feudal terrorism raging on in the interior Sindh and some other parts of the country?
A tableeghi Jamat people were preaching in [...]